August 26, 2014

This Season I need your help in funding my SS15 photoshoot so thought I would try Kickstarter out for the first time.
Any help will be HUGELY appreciated, even just sharing this link and spreading the word. If you are kind enough to make a pledge then there are some great rewards to choose from, from pin badges to pillbox hats! Some are exclusive to Kickstarter and some pieces have a special reduced price exclusively for KS pledgers.

Your generous pledges will enable me to pay for my photo shoot and add to the progression of AM Millinery.

April 9, 2014

Spring seems to have finally hit London- hooray! So I thought it a fitting time to release my new Spring capsule collection – Sakura.

‘Sakura’ literally means ‘cherry blossom’ in Japanese. The arrival of ‘sakura’ in Japan is a celebrated event called ‘Hanami’. Hanami is an important Japanese custom and literally means ‘viewing flowers’, but it generally indicates cherry blossom viewing. It’s said that the origin of hanami dates back to more than one thousand years ago when aristocrats enjoyed looking at beautiful cherry blossoms and wrote poems. I would love to go a Hanami festival one day but until then I will keep daydreaming about Japan and I guess this collection will have to be my Spring celebration.

Sakura is a series of hand painted brass and leather fashion accessories including hair bands, hair pins, and jewellery. The collection was designed over a grey and dull Winter when I was dreaming of Spring to arrive and bring with it some much needed C O L O U R Every piece has been hand spray painted in a mix of pastel blues, pinks, lilacs and metallic golds giving a random, ‘colour burst’ effect. I wanted this collection to be affordable so prices range from £6 for a ponytail band to £28 for a leather alice band.

February 10, 2014

Starting tomorrow – Tuesday 11th February – a selection of work from my 2014 collections will be on exhibition at Craft Central in Clerkenwell.

Celebrating London Fashion Week, Craft Central presents FASHIONED – a cross-disciplinary exhibition of wearable artworks by 25 leading designer-makers. FASHIONED will feature a diverse selection of trail-blazing contemporary fashion, jewellery and accessories, all made in the UK.

FASHIONED will explore the making processes, sculptural forms, innovative materials and narrative elements that contribute to the making of cutting-edge fashion, jewellery and accessories that remain wearable.

December 23, 2013

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and all the best for 2014!

This year has flown by and I can’t believe I actually managed to survive a whole year working for myself! I’m extremely excited about 2014 and everything thats already planned for it (new collections, a capsule collection for Ascot and a collaboration with Singapore based designer MAH to name a few!)

Thank you to everyone that has supported me this year and special thanks to my beautiful models Harriet, Erika and Kerry who have let me plonk my hats onto their beautiful heads to be photographed and didn’t want anything in return. Much love to you lovely girls 🙂

December 4, 2013

There is still plenty of time to order a hat or headpiece in time for Christmas and New Year’s events.

The last date for ordering from my website in time to arrive for Christmas Eve, will be Friday 20th December.

This year I have made some gift vouchers in values of £50 & £100 which I hope will make the perfect gift for any hat lover. The vouchers include a full consultation either in person at the studio, or via phone or email. The lucky recipient can either design a bespoke hat or headpiece with me, or they can order directly from my website.

The gift vouchers are printed on luxe matt card and come wrapped in matching envelopes and ribbon. Lovely.

Also, as a special pre-Christamas treat, I’m offering 15% off of everything on my website when you enter the code DECEMBER15, for the whole of December!

Shipping anywhere in the UK is completely free and I’ll even throw in some gift wrapping too (just call me Santa!)